Job Introduction
Job Purpose: The group facilitator will work as part of the Affinity Programme Team working with schools, parents/carers, and young people to develop resilience skills and promote positive social emotional skills in children and young people. The group facilitator will provide a vital role in the team, providing emotional wellbeing support and emotional regulation strategies through group based activity. The successful applicant will be trained in delivering evidence based interventions which empower children and young people and their parents/carers to become engaged and thriving individuals, promoting positive social emotional skills
Main Responsibility
Key Responsibilities To provide structured resilience groups in schools to support children and young people to both prevent and overcome emotional wellbeing difficulties. To work flexibly to ensure minimal disruption to the child or young person’s education. Some evening or weekend work may be required. To provide structured resilience groups with the important adults in a child or young person’s life, in order to provide social and emotion competence in children and young people. To work closely in partnership with a range of multi-agency partners including CAMHS, Children’s Social Care, Schools, and assist users to access, build and maintain effective relationships with them. To be knowledgeable and familiar with safeguarding procedures and ensure that they are always adhered to To ensure that assessment, support plans and reviews are completed within timescales and to a high standard to provide an effective framework for outcome-focused support. To provide the ECFWS senior management team with insights into practice in order to provide input, expertise and knowledge to encourage sharing of best practice more widely To carry out assessments and risk assessments to identify needs of children, young people and their families. To become part of the school environment, building and maintaining relationships with key staff members in school. To be part of delivery of staff training and development both within the service and to external partners. To develop excellent working relationships with key personnel from Education, health, social care and other stakeholders To ensure that all client records are completed contemporaneously and that outcomes are reported as required. To communicate with key partner organisations to ensure that the Affinity programme www.virgincare.co.uk achieves and maintains the highest profile. To be responsible for planning and delivering own workload to enable the flexible demands of the Service to be met. To encourage the involvement of children and young people, their parents/carers or important adults in the planning and development of the service.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a minimum of Level 3 qualification in Psychology, Education, Child Development or other relevant field and at least 1 year experience of working with children and young people with emotional health needs.
You will have evidence of working therapeutically with children and young people in a group.
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Package Description
You will feel valued as a Group Facilitator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Laptop and Mobile enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
- MyWellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges and access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Virgin Tribe - our staff benefits scheme which grants you access to premier offers and discount off all Virgin products including flights, holidays, gyms and media, along with regular competitions and giveaways.
- We are pleased to offer access to Wagestream -which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
- Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with 100% of our services being rated overall good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.
From around 500 locations across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply. We reserve the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications.
As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all.
HCRG Care Group is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our services.
HCRG Care Group, its subsidiary companies and the LLPs are part of the HCRG Care Group and provide publicly funded health and social care services. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
From 11 November 21, as a result of new legislation, anyone over the age of 18 who enters a Care Home as part of their job must have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or hold a valid medical exemption. As part of our pre-employment process we will therefore ask you to provide:
* proof of your vaccination status via the NHS Covid Pass (either electronically or via the PDF)
* A signed copy of the temporary medical exemption form. Further details about the legislation can be found on the government website. ‘
